Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has told a newspaper the reformed britpop band will ‘definitely release a new album’. In an interview with the Daily Record, the guitarist said of Blur’s triumphant reunion shows a few summers ago: “2009 was an amazing healing experience for us. We were really swept away with it and got a…
The video for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds new single, ‘Dream On’, has been released today and you can watch it right here: The video sees Noel refereeing a boxing match between a man and a woman, in which the woman kicks ass – probably some message about love and the shifting balance of power…
Everyone’s favourite cartoon band Gorillaz have announced they will release a new single on February 23. The bands bassist and spokesperson Murdoc Niccals took to Twitter to announce that ‘DoYaThing’ will be released as part of trainers brand Converse’s ‘Three Artists, One Song’ initiative: So I’ve just been given the all clear! Free to announce…
Following hot on the heels of Odd Future’s Tyler, The Creator’s announcement yesterday regarding the rap groups forthcoming album, it was the turn of cult Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt today to send Twitter into a frenzy. Earl Sweatshirt famously disappeared last year and was rumoured to be in a Samoan rehab centre, and he…
Superstar rap duo Jay-Z and Kanye West caused a stir in London today as they premiered the video for ‘Niggas In Paris’, the next single to be taken from their Watch The Throne collaboration. The video, below, mostly features footage of the pair doing their thing at a recent gig in LA, with a cameo…
Now that’s what we call a band name! We already loved A Place To Bury Strangers before we even heard them, and after we heard their new single ‘So Far Away’ we loved them even more. Their music is as dark, brooding and cool as their name suggests, and reminds us of that other brilliantly…
Odd Future front-man Tyler, The Creator has announced the details of the rap collective’s new album, OF Tape Vol 2, their first on a major label. The album was originally rumoured to be slated for release in March, but Tyler announced today on Twitter that the album will be available on February 20: OFTAPEVOL2. IN…
Seasfire – ‘Falling’ Bristol band Seasfire are fast making a name for themselves with their brand of soulful post-dubstep, which has already seen them championed by the likes of XFM’s Mary Anne Hobbs and 6 Music’s John Kennedy. After one listen to new single ‘Falling’, it’s not hard to see why – the cold and…
Introducing you to Ideals, a London four-piece who make brooding, powerful and melancholic music in the mould of Interpol and The National. Their new single, ‘Altar’, is released on 26th March by Intruder Records, and was first featured on last years mini-LP Let Your Anger Leave You, which you can listen to here: http://soundcloud.com/intruderrecords ‘Altar’, which…
The always interesting and eminently quotable Noel Gallagher (who you can see above performing next single ‘Dream On’) has been getting a bit of stick today after a lengthy interview in the Mail On Sunday was published, in which he, surprise surprise, said some controversial things. What the detractors fail to understand is that Noel…
